HotchPotch
24-12-2014 13:00 : Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 2015 to all of you – from those behind ERC24!
29-11-2014 20:00 : WorldRX of Argentina: While Petter Solberg claimed his 5th overall victory of the now finished 12 rounds season to underline his 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship title win the two Olsbergs MSE teammates Andreas Bakkerud and Reinis Nitišs saved the FIA World Rallycross Championship title for teams for Ford. (EL)
12-10-2014 15:15 : Norwegian Andreas Bakkerud wins the first ever FIA Rallycross event on Asian and Turkish soil, Round 11 of the all-new WorldRX series. At the former Formula 1 circuit Istanbul Park ‘BabyBlue’ was able to beat Swede Timmy Hansen and Finn Toomas ‘Topi’ Heikkinen to second and third place respectively. (EL)

With a 2014 WorldRX/EuroRX round at Franciacorta near Brescia RallycrossRX promoter IMG has announced to bring our motorsport back to Italy, where the town of Gropello-Cairoli hosted a total of four ERC rounds between 1977 and 1980.

After the inaugural race in 1916 the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) was for many a year an all-American affair, till in 1984 saw its first European competitors in “Mister Rallycross” Martin Schanche and “French Volcano” Michèle Mouton.

For at least 30 years some people keep on claiming that the motorsport of Rallycross owes its existence to either a 1963 Rallysprint-type event held at the car parks of Brands Hatch Circuit, or to the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK – or even to both. All nonsense, Rallycross was born at Lydden Hill, already nine months before the 1967 RAC Rally was cancelled due to FMD.

Swedish female Rallycrosser Ramona Karlsson has now revealed what was hinted on our ERC24 Facebook for a couple of days: The former Rally ace has bought the VW Scirocco Mk3 SuperCar of Kristoffersson Motorsport (KMS).

The FIA World Rallycross Championship, presented by Monster Energy, has agreed terms with the World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) to hold a 13th World RX round alongside the 2015 DTM season-opener at the Hockenheimring in Germany, to be held from 1st till 3rd of May.

Scotland-based team Albatec Racing has announced the plan to run its two Peugeot 208 SuperCars in the British Rallycross Championship. One car will be raced by Rallycross returnee Mark Flaherty, in 1992 one of the leading ERC drivers.